Creating a Carbon fiber wallpaper in Gimp

Motivation

I am getting a new payment card with the option of designing the background myself. I thought that a carbon fiber background would be nice, and found wallpaper online to use for the purpose. Unfortunately my bank rejected this as I was not copyright owner of the image. So I figured I had to make one myself, document it and put online. The added benefit from this approach is that the wallpaper I have made is completely free for all to use for all intents and purposes without any attribution and every right to remix, share and redistribute.

Instructions for Gimp 2.6

I scaled the pattern to 20×40 using the scale option with out any interpolation:
Next, I saved this image as a “Gimp pattern” with the .pat postfix and moved this file to /home/tjansson/.gimp-2.6/patterns/ and presed the update button in the patterns dialog in Gimp. With this pattern loaded I created a new image with the size of 1920×1280 and filled it using the pattern as seen in this screenshot:

Finally to make it just a tad less boring I created a new transparent layer put the opacity to 20% and made a gradient or blend using the Gimp blend tool and the blend “Rounded edge”, see this screenshot:

So here it is the result – 10 minutes of work minus the blogging:
So now by bank has no possibility of rejecting the wallpaper as I made my self.